Plant pen
OwnerRobert W. Haufler, Suzanne Hauflerinventors
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Abstract
A plant pen (10) for a floor standing house plant/tree (12) having a pot (14), fertilized soil (16), stem (18) and branches (20). The plant pen (10) comprises a facility (22) placed about the pot (14), fertilized soil (16), stem (18) and branches (20) of the floor standing house plant/tree (12), for preventing a toddler (24) and pet (26) from getting into the fertilized soil (16) in the pot (14), protecting the floor standing house plant/tree (12) from the toddler (24) and pet (26), while also holding up the low hanging branches (20) of the floor standing house plant/tree (12).
Claims1
A plant pen assembly in combination comprising:
- a) a floor standing house plant including a pot, fertilized soil within said pot, and a plant stem and branches including low hanging branches extending up from said pot;
- b) a plant pen comprising a flexible sheet of broad flat generally rectangular thin transparent plastic material formed into a vertical floor standing cylinder surrounding said house plant and being open at the top to support low hanging branches and at the bottom with the two vertical side edges overlapping each other;
- c) means for holding said vertical side edges of said flexible sheet together comprising a strip of engageable hook and loop material on each of said vertical side edges facing each other to mate together in a removable manner;
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- d) means for enhancing the safety and appearance of the top and bottom edges of said cylinder comprising a first piece of tubing having a longitudinal slit to fit upon the top edge of said flexible sheet and a second piece of tubing having a longitudinal slit to fit upon the bottom edge of said flexible sheet, said second piece of tubing sitting on said floor, the top edge of said flexible sheet extending through the slit in the first piece of tubing and touching the top of the inner surface of said first piece of tubing with the edges of the first piece of tubing defining the slit therein being biased against the surfaces of said flexible sheet, and the bottom edge of said flexible sheet extending through the slit in the second piece of tubing and touching the bottom inside surface of said second piece of tubing and the edges of the second piece of tubing defining the slit therein being biased against the surfaces of said sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.